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Hello, I do service oriented jobs that bills parts and labor to accomplish tasks for other companies. I want to computerize it on a laptop or maybe even smartphones. I want to clock in hours to a customer and have it logged to a particular job Im doing for him. I want to be able to partial bill as the job progresses. I want to be able to edit the look of the reports and invoices. And if possible, I would like the financial data to be exportable to end of the year tax software. I dont think any of this is terribly fancy, so I want to avoid subscribing to a monthly service that does all this. There nothing worse than missing a payment because of slow business and them pulling the plug on me. Id rather keep what I got with purchased software that I simply dont update for awhile until business speeds up. Im a small business so I dont have many employees in the best of times. Sometimes in this bad economy, Im the only employee. Who knows, if the software was really easy, maybe I could hire more people if the headache factor was reduced. Anyways, thats what Im kinda looking to do. Ease my way into the computer world without turning my profit into a loss. Thanks in advance for your advise.